Happy Easter! But Disconcerting (forwarded from Byron Marshall)

[Michael Eisenstadt]

I decided to go to sunrise service this morning, even
though it wasn't even daylight. 

On the way over, I saw a billboard for a s.s. at a
church I'd noticed in passing, but never gone to
before.

So I decided to try it.

I went around to their amphitheater in back, passing
the usual accoutrements of Easter Season in this part
of the world:  large stuffed bunnies, a scattering of
Easter Egg shells smashed by little feet on Saturday,
the taurobolium.

The blood from the sacrificed bull was still wet below
the metal superstructure, probably from the baptism
during the morning vigil, I suppose.

The sunrise service was being held in back in a large
amphitheatre facing towards East, where by last
repute, the sun rises.

It was a clear sky, so the rising of the sun and the
celebratory singing should be shock and awesome, I
assumed.

The gents were on one side, the gals on the other, for
"antiphonal" singing at its bestest.

The service got under way with praise and tribute to
Mithras.

"Excuse me," I said to a guy next to me, "but this is
part of the worship of Mithras."

"Oh, really?" he said. "There's a difference?"

The singing was now chanting:

chum-bugga-wum-wum-
chum-wugga-bum-bum
chum-bugga-wum-wum-

As  the delightful electronic boogie disco hit version
of 'the rites of spring' was cheerfully patting away
over the loudspeakers.

It was very impressive.

chum-bugga-wum-wum-kong
chum-bugga-wum-wum
chum-bugga-wum-wum-kong
chum-bugga-wum-wum

They kept chanting getting louder and louder and
carried away. It wasn't like any service I'd seen
around here before. well, some of them, maybe.

Then the drums became louder.  The sun was about to
rise.  The moment was electric

chum-bugga-wum-wum
chum-bugga-wum-wum
chum-bugga-wum-wum-uh!-KONG!
chum-bugga-wum-wum

And then it happened.  Above the wall of the
amphitheater, appeared, not just the sun, but the
mighty head of ....

K O N G !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"You called?" he said in his deep,  masculine, but yet
warmly emotional voice.

The wall of the amphitheater collapsed.  Kong roared. 
People were screaming.

As for me, I woke up and went to sunrise service.

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